St. Sebastian

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El Greco’s tendency to elongate the human figure becomes more notable at this time—for example, in the handsome and unrestored
St. Sebastian. The same extreme elongation of body is also present in Michelangelo’s work, in the painting of the Venetians Tintoretto and Paolo Veronese, and in the art of the leading Mannerist painters. The increased slenderness of...